International Journal of Pure & Applied Bioscience (IJPAB)
Year : 2017, Volume : 5, Issue : 5
First page : (302) Last page : (310)
Article doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2681
Breeding For Nutraceuticals in Sub Tropical Fruit Crops - A Review
Veena, G. L.1, Muralidhara, B. M.1*, Shailendra Rajan2 and A. K. Bhattacharjee3
1Scientist, Division of crop Improvement and Biotechnology, ICAR-Central Institute for sub-tropical Horticulture, Lucknow-226101, India
2Director, ICAR-Central Institute for sub-tropical Horticulture, Lucknow-226101, India
3Principal Scientist, Division of Postharvest Management, ICAR-Central Institute for sub-tropical
Horticulture, Lucknow-226101, India
*Corresponding Author E-mail: muralidhara.bm@gmail.com
Received: 14.03.2017 | Revised: 20.04.2017 | Accepted: 24.04.2017
ABSTRACT
The value of any crop improvements should be measured by the change in nutritional status and health of the people consuming food products derived. Fruits are nature’s wonderful gift to mankind, life-enhancing medicines packed with vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants and many phyto-nutrients. Fruit breeding to get high nutritional attributes play a rewarding activity for the plant breeders. There is an increasing demand for the nutritionally rich cultivars from the society, for consumption of low volume high value foods as well as to alleviate the malnutrition problem, therefore breeding for nutraceuticals play a major role in fruit breeding programme. As majority of the tropical and subtropical fruits are diversified with many of the important phytochemicals, breeding strategies will definitely help in developing nutritionally rich cultivars.
Key words: Nutraceuticals, Subtropical fruits, Fruit breeding
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Cite this article: Veena, G.L., Muralidhara, B.M., Rajan, S. and Bhattacharjee, A.K., Breeding For Nutraceuticals in Sub Tropical Fruit Crops - A Review, Int. J. Pure App. Biosci.5(5): 302-310 (2017). doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.18782/2320-7051.2681
